How to update attendee list to host in icalender - outlook

i'm having issues in sending icalender update to host of the meeting. here i have paste both two of my calender.ics files.
First invitation, with publish method is working and adding to the calender without any issues. But when i send the second email as a update with new attendees(using REQUEST), its not updating with my first calender invitation in outlook.
First Invitation
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 15.0 MIMEDIR//EN
VERSION:2.0
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
STATUS:Testbooking
X-MS-OLK-FORCEINSPECTOROPEN:TRUE
BEGIN:VEVENT
CLASS:PUBLIC
CREATED:20140916T060318Z
DESCRIPTION:
DTEND:20140916T090037Z
DTSTAMP:20140916T060320Z
DTSTART:20140916T083037Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140916T060320Z
LOCATION:Chai Chee - Oasis.Oasis.4th Floor.Celebes
ORGANIZER;CN=Marlen Brayan:mailto:pasan#ecyber.com
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:1
SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-us:Testbooking
TRANSP:OPAQUE
UID:events.ivivaworks.com_FB_Booking_48
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">\n<HTML>\n<HEAD>\n
<META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version rmj.rmm.rup.rpr">\n<TITLE></TITLE>\n
</HEAD>\n<BODY>\n<!-- Converted from text/rtf format -->\n\n<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us">
<FONT FACE="Calibri">
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>\n\n</BODY>\n</HTML>
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:BUSY
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1
X-MICROSOFT-DISALLOW-COUNTER:FALSE
X-MS-OLK-AUTOFILLLOCATION:FALSE
X-MS-OLK-CONFTYPE:0
BEGIN:VALARM
TRIGGER:-PT15M
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:Reminder
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
Second Invitation
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 15.0 MIMEDIR//EN
VERSION:2.0
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:REQUEST
STATUS:Testbooking
X-MS-OLK-FORCEINSPECTOROPEN:TRUE
BEGIN:VEVENT
ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CN="Frederic Reboulleau";RSVP=TRUE:mailto:frederic.reboulleau#orange.com
ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;CN="pasan fernando";RSVP=TRUE:mailto:i.pasan#yahoo.com
CLASS:PUBLIC
CREATED:20140916T060318Z
DESCRIPTION:
DTEND:20140916T090037Z
DTSTAMP:20140916T061357Z
DTSTART:20140916T083037Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140916T061357Z
LOCATION:Chai Chee - Oasis.Oasis.4th Floor.Celebes
ORGANIZER;CN=Marlen Brayan:mailto:pasan#ecyber.com
PRIORITY:5
SEQUENCE:4
SUMMARY;LANGUAGE=en-us:Testbooking
TRANSP:OPAQUE
UID:events.ivivaworks.com_FB_Booking_48
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">\n<HTML>\n<HEAD>\n
<META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version rmj.rmm.rup.rpr">\n<TITLE></TITLE>\n
</HEAD>\n<BODY>\n<!-- Converted from text/rtf format -->\n\n<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us">
<FONT FACE="Calibri">
</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>\n\n</BODY>\n</HTML>
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:BUSY
X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1
X-MICROSOFT-DISALLOW-COUNTER:FALSE
X-MS-OLK-AUTOFILLLOCATION:FALSE
X-MS-OLK-CONFTYPE:0
BEGIN:VALARM
TRIGGER:-PT15M
ACTION:DISPLAY
DESCRIPTION:Reminder
END:VALARM
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
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This is how second invitation shows in outlook. it shows as no response required. but its not updating with first email too. am i doing anything wrong in formatting of ics file?

There's no obvious problem. Your file passes the online validator. Your UIDs are the same. Your sequence number advances, though it should be 0 in the first invitation.
In general, Outlook is very picky, and the only approach that works I find is to copy exactly a working example. Use Gmail to generate an invitation, then modify the event and resend from Gmail. Note exactly how the second invitation is processed by Outlook. Do you need to preview the invitation to provoke the calendar update? Use Gmail "show original" to inspect and copy exactly the structure of the Icalendar, including the order of fields.

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